Translation of "Non-progresseur à long terme " (French → English) :

25. Believes that long-term public investors (national, regional or multilateral development banks and public financial institutions) are strong tools for stimulating private investment so as to allow SMEs access to funding and to catalyse long-term financing for undertakings of broader public interest and of strategic importance, namely those which would add value to public policy objectives related to economic growth, social cohesion and environmental protection; underlines the importance of accountability, transparency and democratic ownership of desirable long-term investment aims and facilitation mechanisms;

33. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in cooperation with youth stakeholders and with Parliament, to develop a plan of action on youth employment identifying short- term, medium-term and long-term measures; regrets that in the current debate long-term measures are being presented as short-term solutions; stresses that in the short term the focus should be on immediate crisis relief, for those both outside and inside the labour market, with a focus on securing a living income as well as options on the labour market; stresses that investments in education and training, job creation, apprenticeship schemes and incentives gea ...[+++]red towards employers are mainly medium-term but also long-term measures which need to be firmly agreed between all actors and upheld for a minimum of five years; stresses that, especially, constructing a system of dual education, apprenticeships, training on the job and integration of young persons into the labour market are long-term measures which need a longer-term commitment than hitherto;

The role of long-term investors for growth and employment The 2012 LTIC International Conference in Luxembourg

The LTIC’s contribution rests on three pillars: policy advice on regulatory needs, research on the impact of long-term investment for growth, and – perhaps most importantly – joint cooperation on financing promising long-term investments.

Opening the LTIC conference, Cyprus’s Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly said that although public authorities have to function in “fire-fighter mode” to combat the crisis, they acknowledge that policy decisions taken today will have long-term consequences and that long-term investment plays a key role in fostering recovery and growth.

5. RECOGNISES that decision-making in our societies, not least by the business community, requires a long term global policy perspective to inform investment, guide the development of the appropriate regulatory framework and stimulate investment in technology development and diffusion; NOTES, in view of the global emissions reductions required and if allowance is made for an increase in aggregated greenhouse gas emissions from developing countries in pursuit of sustainable development goals, the necessity of significantly enhanced reduction efforts by all developed countries, in accordance with the principle of comm ...[+++]on but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in the medium term to be able to meet the long-term emission reduction challenge; EMHASISES the need of proposing medium and long term strategies, including targets at the March 2005 (Environment) Council as a contribution to the 2005 Spring European Council consideration of medium and longer term emission reduction strategies, including targets, taking into account the Commission's report on costs and benefits.